I think I once wrote that reading Leading People (1498-1798), the historian José Manuel Hermoso González, is to discover, learn more of ourselves or, rather, of those who preceded us in our own America .
university professor wrote that when he came on to our stuff that ocean known as Christopher Columbus, and the inhabitants of this continent "... had approximately no less than 120 and not more than 200 centuries in these lands that the Europeans call the New Continent. In other words, neither the continent was new, or who arrive in the late XV were the discoverers of America. " Refer
historian apparently these first inhabitants had already traveled and populated this vast territory "During the first eight thousand years elapsed after his arrival." And then he adds:
It is estimated that about 12,000 years ago some of those human communities came and inhabited the area now occupied by Colombia and Venezuela. "
And so, according to research that has produced this interesting book, we learn that when Europeans came to this land "levels of economic development and social, were not homogeneous. " Account of Alaska to Patagonia was a variety in terms of social formations are concerned, what he described as "... a true structural heterogeneity."
Consider, similarly, that between 15 and 12 thousand years back "and from the eastern tip of Asia, groups of former hunters settled in the cold steppes of Siberia, went to the American continent from the territory of what later would be the Soviet Union across the Bering Strait, becoming the true discoverers and first settlers of this land. However, based on other archaeological evidence, Other researchers support the hypothesis does not exclude that some groups could be penetrated before or after, through the island chain located in the southern and eastern Asia have risen from South America to other regions of the continent. "
Colombia and Venezuela and its original inhabitants
As for those who lived, some 12 thousand years before the Christian era, the researcher believes that some of these groups of people went to the south of continent and others came north of the northern South America, "entered the territory that is now Colombia, continued westward of Venezuela and settled in the states of Falcon and Zulia "and then the historian at the University of Carabobo is more precise
" According to the traces found at Taima-Taima and the Hundición in the current state of Falcon in this region is skilled hunters who have taken hold of mastodons and other mammals. Have made chisels and drills for working bone and wood, as well as hand axes, scrapers, knives, arrows, spears and javelins. " And he continues in his narrative noting that "It is estimated that six thousand years later in the east, had established villages or camps hunter-gatherers. At first, they hunted birds, deer and other terrestrial animals, while they collected seashells and fishing. Subsequently and gradually became dependent on marine resources. "
Then, in his book Professor González Hermoso, that "the beginnings of horticulture and sedentary lifestyles begin in Venezuela and the Caribbean, about two thousand years before Christ. As a result, tribal villages replaced sedentary lifestyle marine collector. Is estimated to correspond to the same time and same place the first samples of pottery have been identified. " Refer
also that different techniques working the pottery and other forms of agriculture are believed to correspond to some communities along the sides of Guarico state, about 650 years BC, while fishermen, potters located south of Lake Maracaibo and Valencia near Lake and other archaeological detail earlier said that it was Christian there are traces of prehistoric potters and painters in Canyon and Upper and Lower Orinoco. Add
then that 200 years later, groups identified as Hispanic culture snore join groups of collectors of what is now known as Sucre state, others go to Paria and a one hundred years later, other groups will Barrancas culture to the Middle Orinoco.
Probable ancestors Caribbean
The historian's job interesting is that oddly enough, is now when we come to know a history of those who came before us and was never heard in the classrooms of Venezuelans and other Latin Americans.
But the fact is that Hermoso González makes us aware of who walked these lands and reiterates, in her investigation that has been saying for years that there was no finding that what occurred was a meeting bad encounter with a culture predatory as it was the English.
historian says it is estimated that between V and VI century, some "people of the tradition arauquín-probable ancestors of the Carib-moved from the Amazon region to the central region of Venezuela. Following the Orinoco arrived at the mouth of the Caroni River. Occupy the basins of Lake Valencia, Carabobo and Aragua coast, the valley of Caracas and Isla de Los Roques. Some archaeologists argue that, roughly between 800 and 1000 AD the Christian era, there would have been a migration of indigenous Venezuelans on the region of the Antilles.